2025-02-17 front | Hacker News

Stories from February 17, 2025 (UTC)

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day.

1.		All Kindles can now be jailbroken (kindlemodding.org)
		1261 points by lumerina 1 day ago \| 396 comments
2.		You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (infobip.com)
		674 points by tonkkatonka 3 days ago \| 376 comments
3.		Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (hforsten.com)
		580 points by picture 1 day ago \| 56 comments
4.		I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
		642 points by fanf2 1 day ago \| 168 comments
5.		Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
		262 points by SeenNotHeard 1 day ago \| 458 comments
6.		San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time (sfstandard.com)
		365 points by NaOH 1 day ago \| 652 comments
7.		How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers? (langdev.stackexchange.com)
		381 points by azeemba 3 days ago \| 61 comments
8.		Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics (github.com/umami-software)
		317 points by ksec 4 days ago \| 154 comments
9.		X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com)
		751 points by confusing3478 1 day ago \| 698 comments
10.		George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879 (learningfromexamples.com)
		129 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| 48 comments
11.		Gold Is Worth More in New York (bloomberg.com)
		144 points by ioblomov 4 days ago \| 130 comments
12.		Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought (github.com/dhealy05)
		206 points by higuidebot 18 hours ago \| 59 comments
13.		Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M (coindesk.com)
		308 points by techlover14159 1 day ago \| 344 comments
14.		0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance (yosefk.com)
		142 points by ingve 23 hours ago \| 83 comments
15.		Debugging an Undebuggable App (bryce.co)
		274 points by xmprt 16 hours ago \| 43 comments
16.		The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016) (ruder.io)
		173 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago \| 20 comments
17.		When Not to Obey Orders (2019) (warontherocks.com)
		284 points by throwaway19577 1 day ago \| 186 comments
18.		List of DRM-Free Bookshops (libreture.com)
		262 points by nafnlj 12 hours ago \| 59 comments
19.		Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system (phys.org)
		84 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago \| 52 comments
20.		Spacetime maps: A map that warps to show travel time (vvolhejn.com)
		134 points by kevinsundar 4 days ago \| 24 comments
21.		YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (reddit.com)
		390 points by Tijdreiziger 1 day ago \| 263 comments
22.		My Time at MIT (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
		177 points by rrampage 1 day ago \| 65 comments
23.		Launch HN: Roark (YC W25) – Taking the pain out of voice AI testing
		51 points by zammitjames 17 hours ago \| 25 comments
24.		Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array (espargos.net)
		165 points by leoedin 20 hours ago \| 30 comments
25.		Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments (thomas-huehn.com)
		102 points by Tomte 18 hours ago \| 58 comments
26.		Physics Informed Neural Networks (nchagnet.pages.dev)
		91 points by nchagnet 1 day ago \| 15 comments
27.		NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES (github.com/decrazyo)
		107 points by Tiberium 14 hours ago \| 24 comments
28.		On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018) (benningtonreview.org)
		191 points by tie-in 11 hours ago \| 71 comments
29.		Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon (cnn.com)
		168 points by mooreds 1 day ago \| 124 comments
30.		Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux (previnder.com)
		113 points by previnder 12 hours ago \| 24 comments
		More